Chapter 17



Chapter 17

West on the Eve of a New World Order

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The eighteenth century stands as the turning point in world history, as the power of the old order diminished and revolution ushered in a new age. The century began with power in the hands of nobles, monarchs and clerics. Large-scale war demanded increasingly large armies with the subsequent need for higher taxes to fund them. In addition, growing populations and fundamental changes in economics began to reduce the power and importance of the old order. New world wars allowed Great Britain to create a world wide empire backed by the greatest navy. Increasing economic pressures helped to spawn a revolutionary movement that surged to the surface in the Western Hemisphere and in France. The movement demanded political liberty and equality –key concepts of the Enlightenment. While limited in reality, opportunities for most people were increased, and government became more responsive to the desires of its citizens.

1. Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Intellectual Revolution in the West

A. Scientific Revolution

1. Revolution in Astronomy

2. Descartes and Rationalism

3. Europe, China and Scientific Rwevolutions

B. Background Enlightenment

1. Newton and Locke

C. Philosophes and Their Ideas

1. Montesquieu

2. Voltaire

3. Diderot

2. Toward a New "Science of Man"

A. Later Enlightenment

B. The "Woman Question" in the Enlightenment

C. Culture in an Enlightenment Age

D. Music

E. High Culture

F. Popular Culture

G. Economic Changes and the Social Order

H. New Economic Patterns

I. European Society in the Eighteenth Century

3. Colonial Empires and Revolution in the Western Hemisphere

A. The Society of Latin America

B. The Economic Foundations

C. The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

D. British North America

4. British North America

A. Revolution

B. Birth of a New Nation

5. Toward a New Political Order and Global Conflict: Absolutism

A. Prussia: The Army and the Bureaucracy

B. The Austrian Empire of the Habsburgs

C. Russia Under Catherine the Great

D. Enlightened Absolutism Reconsidered

6. Changing Patterns of War: Global Confrontation

7. The Seven Years’ War: A Global War

8. The French Revolution

A. Background to the French Revolution

B. Social Structure of the Old Regime

C. Other Problems Facing the French Monarchy

D. From Estates-General to National Assembly

E. Destruction of the Old Regime

F. The Radical Revolution

G. A Nation in Arms

H. Reign of Terror

I. Equality and Slavery

J. Reaction and the Directory

9. The Age of Napoleon

A. Domestic Policies

B. Napoleon’s Empire and the European Response

C. The Grand Empire

D. The Fall of Napoleon

10. Conclusion

Terms and Persons to Know

The Enlightenment

Immanuel Kant

reason

Bernard de Fontenelle

skepticism

travel literature

John Locke

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

tabula rasa

philosophes

Baron de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

Voltaire

Treatise on Toleration

deism

Diderot

Encyclopedia

"science of man"

Physiocrats

laissez-faire

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind

The Social Contract

Emile

"natural" inferiority

Mary Astell

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Mary Wollstonecraft

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

salons

Marie-Thérèse de Geoffrin

learned and secret societies

Rococo art

Antoine Watteau

Baroque-Rococo architectural style

Balthasar Neumann

Baroque musical style

Johann Sebastian Bach

George Frederick Handel

Classical musical style

Franz Joseph Haydn

Fireworks Music

oratorios

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

operas

English novel

Samuel Richardson

Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

high culture

publishing

popular culture

Carnival

population growth

food

cottage industry

Richard Arkwright

global economy

European social organization

orders or estates

peasantry

nobles

townspeople

balance of power

reason of state

Silesia

Seven Years' War

Great War for Empire

Treaty of Paris

French and British rivalry in North America

mercantilist theory

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Ohio River valley

William Pitt the Elder

General James Wolfe

Louis-Joseph Montcalm

Treaty of Paris

armies

navies

Portuguese colonial empire

Spanish colonial empire

Latin America

repartimento

mestizos

haciendas and fazendas

asiento

viceroy

viceroyalties

cabildo

Spanish Bourbon kings

missions

Catholicism in Latin America

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

British North America

Parliament

Hanoverians

Stamp Act

voters

representation

national identity

First Continental Congress

Lexington and Concord

Second Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

Continental Army

George Washington

French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian support of colonies

Cornwallis

Treaty of Paris

Articles of Confederation

Constitution

"checks and balances"

three branches of federal government

Federalists

Bill of Rights

natural laws

natural rights

"enlightened absolutism"

Frederick William I

General Directory

Junkers

Prussian army

Frederick the Great

Austrian Empire

Empress Maria Theresa

Joseph II

Catherine the Great

Charter of Nobility

Emelyan Pugachev

Russian territorial expansion

First Estate

Second Estate

Third Estate

bourgeoisie

Louis XVI

Estates-General

Tennis-Court Oath

National Assembly

Bastille

popular uprisings

Great Fear

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Olympe de Gouges

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

revolutionary consensus

war with Austria

National Convention

execution of Louis XVI

Commune

European coalition against France

Committee of Public Safety

Maximilien Robespierre

Jacobins

"people's wars"

Reign of Terror

Lyons

French Republic

Thermidorean Reaction

Napoleon Bonaparte

first consul

Emperor Napoleon I

Concordat

Napoleonic Civil Code

bureaucracy

new aristocracy

second European coalition

third coalition

Grand Empire

collapse of Grand Empire

Continental System

nationalism

fraternité

invasion of Russia

Louis XVIII

Waterloo

Duke of Wellington

Mapwork

Map 17.1. The Age of the Enlightenment in Europe

What factors enabled the Enlightenment to become not merely a national movement, but an international one? Which countries contributed most to the development and spread of Enlightenment discoveries and values?

Why were secular governments and church authorities divided over the importance of the Enlightenment? Why did Enlightenment thinkers proceed anyway? Who ultimately triumphed in this debate? What were the consequences, even up to the present day, for Western societies?

Why was the Enlightenment so called? How does this movement relate to the Scientific Revolution? Is it identical with it?

Does this European concept of the Enlightenment bear any resemblance to the Hindu concept of enlightenment, or Nirvana?

MapPacific Discoveries

What was the “noble savage?” What was its importance?

How did world exploration change European views of the world and themselves?

Map 17.2. Global Trade Patterns of the European States in the Eighteenth Century

What were the most important raw materials and foods exported to Europe from the Americas in the eighteenth century? Along what boundary lines did the British and French divide North America? How did the Spanish and Portuguese crowns partition South America?

What trade in the East and West qualifies this system as a "global economy"?

Map 17.3. The Seven Years' War

Why did many Indians side with the French rather than the British in this war?

How were global wars different from preceding warfare? What qualifies the Seven Years' War as a global conflict? In this war, what conflicts occurred in Europe? Where did the Great War for Empire occur?

In contrast to the French Revolution, why is this conflict not termed a "people's war"?

What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris?

Map 17.4. Latin America in the Eighteenth Century

In the Spanish colonies, how was the repartimento system intended to improve upon the encomienda system? Did it work? Why or why not?

Who were the peons? Briefly explain the evolution of haciendas and fazendas in the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies.

Why did these colonies come to be called Latin America?

Map 17.5. Europe in 1763

What is the history of the conflict over Austrian Silesia? Why did this relatively small area cause such devastating and lengthy conflicts?

Why did so many European powers enter into the Prussian-Austrian dispute? Which played the most prominent roles? Why?

MapRevolt in Saint Domingue

Who led the revolt on Saint Domingue? Was he ultimately successful?

How did the French Revolution affect its colonies?

Map 17.6. Napoleon's Grand Empire

Where was Napoleon successful in extending the French empire? How was he finally defeated?

How is Napoleon's vision of a three-fold Grand empire reflected on this map? What three elements did he envision?

Locate on the map and consider the importance of the following in the life of Napoleon: Trafalgar, the Russian invasion route, Elba, and Waterloo.

Datework

Chronology: The European States--Enlightened Absolutism in the Eighteenth Century

What role did Prussian militarism play in eighteenth-century European politics?

What modern countries exist today in the region once known as Prussia?

How do the Instruction and Charter of the Nobility of Catherine the Great represent the changes her enlightened policies underwent during her thirty-four year reign?

How did Pugachev's rebellion affect the evolution of Catherine the Great's policies?

Chronology: The French Revolution

Why did Louis XVI call a session of the Estates-General in 1789? Why had that body not met since 1614?

How did the meeting of the Estates-General lead to the formation of a National Assembly? Why was this new assembly essentially illegal?

Why was the National Convention originally formed? How was it different from the earlier National Assembly?

Why did the National Convention give such broad powers to a Committee on Public Safety?

What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy? Why did traditionally Catholic France pass such a decree? How did Napoleon's Concordat seek to make partial amends for this oath? For dechristianization?

Why was Robespierre executed?

Chronology: The Age of Napoleon, 1799-1815

How did the Concordat help to pacify France?

Why did Napoleon's Continental System fail?

Why did the exiled Napoleon return to Paris in 1815? What did he hope to accomplish at Waterloo?

Chapter Timeline: From The Enlightenment to the Battle of Waterloo

Why was the Encyclopedia of Diderot so important to the spread of Enlightenment ideas? How does this relate to the work of Fontanelle? To the salons?

How did the Baroque muscial style exemplified in the compositions of Bach and Handel differ from the Classical music of Haydn and Mozart?

What ideas about enlightened government did Frederick the Great, Joseph II, and Catherine the Great put into action? Which succeeded? Which did not? Why? From where did these ideas originate?

What did Americans call the Seven Years' War? Why?

What policies of Robespierre, the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety led to the Reign of Terror in France? How did it end?

Primary Sources

The Attack on Religious Intolerance: Voltaire, The Ignorant Philosopher and Candide

What criticisms does Voltaire make against religious fanaticism in this passage? Did the skeptics believe that religion could exist without such negative consequences?

Why would a minister's wife want Candide to denounce the Pope as the Antichrist? What statement about religious factionalism is Voltaire making here?

How did eighteenth-century travel literature contribute to the religious skepticism of many philosophes?

The Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By what means did Wollstonecraft propose that women could become "better citizens"? What would be the positive results for both women and men?

What picture does the author paint of the women of her day? Why are they in such a deplorable state? How does Wollstonecraft suggest that both women and men are at fault for the "slavish" situation of females?

Why did Enlightenment learned societies exclude women? How was "scientific" anatomy used to perpetuate old sterotypes about women?

The Mission: Félix de Azara, Description and History of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata

How were the missions organized to enable missionaries to control many aspects of the Indians' lives? Why was this deemed necessary?

Why would the missionaries have forbidden the women to sew? What reference to mercantilism do you percieve in the last paragraph of the passage?

Primary Sources on the French Revolution:

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

What similarities exist between this French document and the American Declaration of Independence? Why do such parallels exist?

Do you perceive any further similarities between this Declaration of Rights and and American Bill of Rights? What specific rights and freedoms are protected in both?

Why was the American Bill of Rights attached to the Constitution, rather than to the Declaration of Independence?

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791)

Why did Olympe de Gouges assert that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen did not apply to women? How were women excluded from that original declaration?

According to the author, what rights were denied to eighteenth-century women? Was this only in France, or does she speak for all women?

What rights does the author argue should be granted to women? What positive results does she envision for freer women? For society as a whole?

What similarities do you perceive between the work of Olympe de Gouges in France and Mary Wollstonecraft in England? What effect did their writings have in eighteenth-century Europe? In their own countries?

Justice in the Reign of Terror: J.G. Milligen, The Revolutionary Tribunal (Paris, October 1793)

How were the condemned taken to the executioner? How did this serve to inflame the crowds?

How was everyone executed? Why?

How did the Reign of Terror finally end?

Napoleon and Psychological Warfare: Proclamation to French Troops in Italy (April 26, 1796)

Who are "those arrogant kings" to whom Napoleon refers? Why did they oppose Napoleon's vision of Grand Empire?

When did Napoleon change his title from First Consul to Emperor Napoleon I? Why might this be considered the end of the French Revolution?

Artwork

Enlightenment Art:

A London Coffeehouse

What social, economic, and political functions were fulfilled by the European coffeehouse?

Briefly compare and contrast this London coffeehouse to the salon of Madame Geoffrin.

Rococo Art:

Antoine Watteau, The Pilgrimage to Cythera

What lyrical qualities do you perceive in this Rococo painting? Are there elements of sadness present? What other characteristics of the Rococo does this painting exemplify?

How did the Rococo represent a departure from Baroque art?

Why would Enlightenment aristocratic tastes have been pleased by this painting's reference to Greek mythology rather than to a Christian theme?

Baroque-Rococo Architecture:

Vierzehnheiligen, Exterior View

What Baroque and Rococo elements are evident in Neumann's church facade?

Consider this architectural style in light of Map 18.1. Why were monarchs of Europe eager to imitate the Palace of Versailles? Which courts were able to build palaces in the Baroque-Rococo style?

Eighteenth-Century European Art and Architecture:

The Aristocratic Way of Life

How was social status determined in the eighteenth century?

What were the special rights nobles possessed in eighteenth-century Europe?

Colonial Art:

Robert Clive in India

What about India interested the British? Particularly Robert Clive?

If the artist was not present at the meeting, how did Hayman represent India? How is this representation affected by British view of colonial peoples?

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

In addition to convents, what other Catholic organizations were present in the Spanish-ruled Americas?

What new opportunities did the church provide for women?

What traditional ideas about women caused this talented writer to be refused admission to the University of Mexico? Was the convent more understanding of her literary ambitions?

Russian Art:

Catherine the Great

Consider this royal portrait alongside the previous portrait of Louis XIV in Chapter Fifteen. Why was presentation of self and court such a priority for absolutist rulers? Did "enlightenment" change such preoccupations?

Why is it especially appropriate for Catherine the Great to be presented in this fashion in the Temple of Justice? What legislative efforts did she make to improve Russia? Which classes were most affected?

What enlightened measures did Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, and Joseph II pursue? How were their reforms limited?

Art of the French Revolution:

Storming of the Bastille

What was the Great Fear? How did the popular uprisings, such as the one depicted in this painting, contribute to this national crisis?

Why did French commoners storm the Bastille? Why was this attack more a symbolic act than a real achievement against an oppressive government?

Women Patriots

To which of the three estates would the women pictured here most likely belong? How might their estate and financial standing influence their views on the National Convention decrees they are reading?

Are the women pictured here literate or illiterate? What effect would women's education have on their involvement with the Revolution?

Did women hold positions of leadership in the French revolution? What roles were assigned to them?

The Coronation of Napoleon

Why is it aptly said that Napoleon both destroyed and preserved aspects of the French Revolution?

Why did Napoleon restore monarchy in France rather than maintain a "people's republic"? Were his own ambitions or the welfare of France paramount in his decision?

What about David's painting strikes you as Absolutist in its representation of Napoleon and Josephine?

Why are Catholic clergy prominent in the painting? Given their presence, why does Napoleon, not the pope, place the crown on Josephine's head?

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